He did not want to be a successful loser, he said.

Eating breakfast is a daily habit for the "successful losers" who belong to The National Weight Control Registry.

All the successful losers restructured their eating habits.

Five 'successful losers' tell their story about life after bariatric surgery.

This team are summed up by the joke that they are not even Germany's most successful losers.

So exactly how do successful losers - all those people we've seen on reality shows and in magazine articles - beat the odds to avoid regaining?

Hill and Wing learned that these successful losers tended to share several habits:

Most successful losers are walking 11,000-12,000 steps, or the equivalent of 5.5-6 miles per day.

A Consumer Reports survey found this was a top habit of "successful losers."

"Always slim" people do it and successful losers do it, too, according to a Consumer Reports survey.